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Advantage of Wordpress over Typepad?

by katied772
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Embarrassing as it is, I just cannot get the hang of wordpress. I do have an account with typepad and find it easy to use. Is there a real advantage to wordpress over typepad as far as getting traffic, etc? It seems everyone uses wordpress and loves it. Of course, typepad is a paid platform so I'm sure that contributes to a preference for wordpress for many. Don't mind continuing to pay for typepad, just don't want to be missing important elements by not using wordpress. Thanks, Kate
#advantage #typepad #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Dave Owen
    Self-hosted wordpress allows you to have complete control over your content. It is stored on your server.

    Not sure if typepad is the same, is it?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    • Profile picture of the author katied772
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Hi Kate,

      I use TypePad for almost all my main sites (that's 9 or 10) and have basically "never looked back" and I recommend it whenever/wherever I can. It seems to me that (if you're willing to delve into all its intricacies) it has - for my purposes, anyway - all the flexibility of WordPress without the learning curve and problems.

      Embarrassing as it is, I just couldn't get the hang of WordPress either.

      Very often, when I see threads here asking for WordPress advice and read the expert answers, I find myself thinking "I'm so pleased I don't use this!". (Recently I read that even to change the font-size in a post, using WordPress, you have to know how to fiddle with the CSS or something?! ).

      From the hosting/software perspective, my own feeling is that if anything you're actually better placed with TypePad than you are with self-hosted WordPress, because you're effectively a paying customer for the software as well as for the hosting, and are in that sense better off when it comes to "customer support". TypePad's helpdesk has never yet failed to answer co-operatively and helpfully anything I've ever wanted to know (and if you only knew what an incompetent, technophobic site-builder I am, that's really saying something). If it's good enough for the BBC and SkyNews, it's good enough for me.
      Thanks Alexa,
      Do you have any idea of wordpress offers an advantage in indexing and being picked up by the search engines?
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        • Profile picture of the author passiveincomebiz
          Seriously considering Typepad as well. The constant updates of WP, the security threats. I had one WP site where some code would just get overwritten and the site would go down.

          I think Alexa --- you have just made up my mind
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  • Profile picture of the author puneet tyagi
    wordpress is easy to operate
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Before I switched over to Wordpress, I used Movable Type (no, that's not a misspelling). MT is the self-hosted version of TypePad. I never noticed any difference in performance.

      So why did I switch?

      Two reasons. At the time, I had consulting clients that wanted to go with WP for their own reasons. And, at the time, there was a lot more active development, both in terms of tutorials/instructions for hacking and in terms of themes and plugins. When I say "hacking", I mean that in the positive sense of taking something and modifying it to suit your needs.

      If Typepad suits you better technically, go for it.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

        Before I switched over to Wordpress, I used Movable Type
        Looks like you did the right thing there, John: I hear that nowadays many people feel there are great problems over Movable Type, specifically relating to the frequent "new versions", their installation and the (in)compatibility problems that can arise over them. Much more so than with updated versions of Wordpress, I understand. For reasons I don't claim to understand, these problems don't arise at all with TypePad itself, though. There are certainly plenty of people who were self-hosted with Movable Type but have now switched to TypePad, too.

        There were also several "hybrid hosts" who sold hosting specifically to Movable Type users and offered MT support facilities included with the hosting, but I understand that nearly all of them no longer offer MT hosting, these days, and have themselves more or less switched to Wordpress.

        From what I've heard, and read, I'd certainly suggest that TypePad's likely to be preferable to Movable Type, for anyone who doesn't want to use Wordpress.
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